Comments

Comment by Percy1

An excellent helmet that almost matches the Cowl of Absolution for healing priests. The lack of meta gem and socket gives the T6 helm a slight edge, but if you're lacking that or better then this will be a solid upgrade!

Comment by Noura

I think this item is clearly superior to T6 given the huge chunk of spirit and minor boost to side stats it has over it. You could make them on par with wotlk blue quality gems prolly but you wouldn't want to waste those precious new gems on old T6 content would you ?

Comment by Concillian

If you replace the T6 meta with the current version (insightful earthsiege) then the T6 is very clearly superior. TBC version of the meta was worth over 30MP5 in my WWS parses, the Wrath version of the meta is strictly double.

You pretty much cannot justify using a helm without a meta as a healing priest. The mana regen from the meta is just too much to ignore. There are currently only 2 cloth helms with meta sockets outside of raids and they drop in heroics. When the Arena season starts, it may be worthwhile to lose 10 games and get in some BGs for the blue PvP helm to use in PvE so you aren't reliant on spotty heroic drops as a holdover until you get Naxx drops.

Comment by Tauton

Fun fact - With this equipped, and full 187+ items on, i managed to get the 'superior' ahievement. I've never worn any better hat (went straight from tier 5 hat to this). So the game seems to have classed this as ilevel 187 or higher.

I think this is higher than 171 (type in game maybe) which makes sense as the stats are very high for an ilevel 171 imo.

Comment by dicentor

finally, a hat that doesn't force me to turn the helm graphics off - well, without looking like a gimp anyhow.

*ie the hat looks kewl*

Comment by sycomonkey

I may be wrong but there doesn't seem to be a better healer hat until the Elder Headpiece from Heroic Old Kingdom.

Comment by TMWL

There is bug about this headpiece model.My human mage with blood elf style hair appear to be bold when wearing this headpiece. :(